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Leviticus 12

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1 And the Lord said to Moses,

2 Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.

3 And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

4 And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may be touched by her, and she may not come into the holy place, till the days for making her clean are ended.

5 But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days.

6 And when the days are ended for making her clean for a son or a daughter, let her take to the priest at the door of the Tent of meeting, a lamb of the first year for a burned offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin-offering:

7 And the priest is to make an offering of it before the Lord and take away her sin, and she will be made clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for a woman who gives birth to a male or a female.

8 And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,

   

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Circumcise

  
"The Circumcision" by Barent Fabritius

All parts of the human body correspond to spiritual things. That includes the sex organs of both men and women, which correspond to the true love that can exist in a marriage when both the husband and wife are seeking to do the Lord’s will and to be joined to each other internally.

Heaven is filled with that marriage love, and all other loves come from this marriage love -- making it the most important of all human loves.

Since the foreskin covers the male sex organ, then, it represents evil loves that block that marriage love – the love of self and the love of things of the world. Cutting it off represents ridding ourselves of those loves and being purified. This concept is actually relatively clear in the Bible, which also frequently mentions circumcision of the heart and occasionally the circumcision of the lips - getting rid of evil loves and evil speech. In Genesis 17:10, circumcision signifies purity.